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For Science! The Science Thread

Alpha-One

By Alpha-One,
Posted on: 2010-10-27 07:21 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture

 

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Feel free to post links to any interesting science articles of any type (not just space related items).


Robonaut 2, First humanoid space robot launches Nov. 1
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39848577...science-space/

Miniature batteries smaller than grains of salt
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39777855...ce-innovation/

Private space station venture hammering out deals
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39804974...science-space/

Hundred Year Starship: An Apollo-like Push to the Stars?
http://hplusmagazine.com/editors-blo...llo-push-stars

Billionaires wanted for starship plan
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news...-starship-plan

 

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I thoroughly recommend Futurehorizons.net.

Yes you too can master; Alternate energy, lasers, psionic technology, jetpacks, bionic exo-skeletons and time travel (to name but a few).

All with handy bluprints and building instructions for modest fee !.


All of my EU family will tell you i'm perfectly sane and through futurehorizons.net, I am now on the mk II version of my Flying-Universal-Battle-Armaments & Reconnaisance suit.
I'm having a little trouble with the port-side oscillator valve on the boot intakes and wiped out my greenhouse last weekend, apart from that everythings going great !. \o/

Futurehorizons.net - a must for any cape.

 

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Thanks for the links everyone, keep them coming.




The world's fastest supercomputer
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39889753...h_and_gadgets/

Silicon Nanopores boost the capacity of lithium-ion batteries by a factor of 10
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/10...ium-batteries/

China lays out its plan for Mars
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news...-plan-for-mars




Older news

Gasoline from thin air?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38592987...ce-innovation/

Self-Cleaning Solar Panels
http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/26116/

 

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The hard part for me will be finding links that you don't need an account to view. I'll keep this thread in mind next time I come across something that I'm allowed to link to.

EDIT: Yay, fourteen-thousandth post!

 

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The second video is really creepy, because it kind of moves like an animal...

 

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Originally Posted by Zikar View Post
The second video is really creepy, because it kind of moves like an animal...
I kinda want one for a pet now...

 

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Originally Posted by Lazarus View Post
The hard part for me will be finding links that you don't need an account to view. I'll keep this thread in mind next time I come across something that I'm allowed to link to.

EDIT: Yay, fourteen-thousandth post!
Some people may have access like myself. Plus usually at least the abstracts are public.


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I just wanted to say I thought it was very appropriate that someone with the forum name/avatar of "Baltar" be posting in a thread about crazy science ideas that could potentially destroy most of humanity.

Score +1 for being in the right place at the right time.

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Originally Posted by Lothic View Post
I just wanted to say I thought it was very appropriate that someone with the forum name/avatar of "Baltar" be posting in a thread about crazy science ideas that could potentially destroy most of humanity.

Score +1 for being in the right place at the right time.

Thanks, I was wondering how long it would take before someone brought that up.

 

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Originally Posted by Mothers_Love View Post
I thoroughly recommend Futurehorizons.net.

Yes you too can master; Alternate energy, lasers, psionic technology, jetpacks, bionic exo-skeletons and time travel (to name but a few).

All with handy bluprints and building instructions for modest fee !.


All of my EU family will tell you i'm perfectly sane and through futurehorizons.net, I am now on the mk II version of my Flying-Universal-Battle-Armaments & Reconnaisance suit.
I'm having a little trouble with the port-side oscillator valve on the boot intakes and wiped out my greenhouse last weekend, apart from that everythings going great !. \o/

Futurehorizons.net - a must for any cape.
Interesting site.

I'd love to actually see a few examples of the "blueprints" for some of thier more outlandish items (anti-grav, free energy, psionic anything, etc).

There's no way in H-E-Double Hockey Sticks that I'd ever pay them up-front of course...

Hey, if your information is so great, let me peruse it and if it works then I'll gladly pay you more than what you're asking for it. (like that's gonna happen )

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But if the time-travel ones work you could go back and reassure yourself that they are indeed worth buying.

 

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Originally Posted by Mothers_Love View Post
But if the time-travel ones work you could go back and reassure yourself that they are indeed worth buying.
But as you haven't done so, isn't that proof that it doesn't work

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Originally Posted by OV_ohms View Post
But as you haven't done so, isn't that proof that it doesn't work
Well, as every good sci-fi geek knows - you cannot go back beyond when the time machine was constructed in the first place. I guess you'll have to find someone who has a working one themselves and ask them to go back and reassue you its worth buying.

 

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Zapping the Brain Improves Math Skills
http://news.discovery.com/human/brai...city-math.html

High Performance MIM May Revolutionize Electronics
http://hplusmagazine.com/editors-blo...ze-electronics

New suit to strengthen astronauts' bones
http://www.newscientist.com/article/...uts-bones.html

Thin Displays as Wristbands
http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/26537/

Physician Inventors Discuss First Device to Combat Vertigo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu047vTckvA

Space Travelers Can Benefit From Genetic Screening & Genetic Engineering
http://www.livescience.com/space/cra...ng-101101.html

Mars Colonists Will Take Cues From The Wild West
http://news.discovery.com/space/mars...wild-west.html






Older News

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation can switch you from right-handed to left-handed
http://io9.com/5649367/you-can-switc...wer-of-magnets

Student’s Discovery Advances Nanotech Research
http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2010/10...h_article.html

Hopping Mars Rover Could Be Superfast Explorer
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/20...ng-mars-rover/

 

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Looking at this thread, I'm wondering if you lot would have any interest in my blog site, which has a mostly science/tech/engineering theme. It hasn't been up for more than a week so far but I'm rapidly adding content as I go.